One of my main issues with the DSA is that they seem to believe that they can only help people's material needs when they are elected to office, but in a capitalist country like the United States, counting on being elected to begin to help ease people's material needs and begin to implement socialism seems like a losing strategy. If I'm wrong about this and they do have that, please tell me because I'd like to get involved and do something beyond purely ideological.
Right now I’m looking to buy a first car and at my local dealership they have a 2020 Subaru Outback Limited for ~19,000 USD. Im just wondering how other people have liked theirs and how reliable theirs has been. For reference it has about 97,000 miles on, has no accident history, and a full maintenance history.
Detroit is clearly on the upswing right now with a lot of momentum in that direction, and Detroit is drastically different from how it was even 10 years ago, so where do you see Detroit going in the next ten years? What does detroit still need to do in order to get better?
I'm a rising senior in high school searching for colleges and so far its been kind of hard to gauge how happy/fulfilled I'll be at different schools and I'm scared that I'll pick the wrong college and be miserable. What made UO stand out from other schools? What do you like most about it? How did you know you'd be happy there?
This question could also be phrased which country would you like to live in the least. Some obvious choices for me would be the Burgundian State(TNO), One State(RF), Holy Russian Empire(TNO), Brotherhood of Cain(TNO).
Maybe this is a dumb question, but why are there Irish people, among other people from outside the US in Fallout games? I mean with someone like Raul it makes sense since Mexico borders the US, but with someone like Cait, how does that work? Are there still people crossing the Atlantic to immigrate? Are things that much worse in Ireland or something? Same thing with Moriarty in Fallout 3, I mean I guess you could argue that they were born in the US wasteland and just happened to have that accent but I feel like that’s a stretch. Accents usually don’t last more than one generation, children of immigrants lose their parent’s accents in favor of the accent of where they live. Your dad in Fallout three does have an Irish accent but also he was born in the Capital Wasteland so I don’t know, is there a lore reason behind this? Are these people really from Ireland or do they just have the accent for some odd reason?
So this was filmed on May 20th, at ~10:17 cst in the northern suburbs of Chicago. I was out letting my dog out and looking up at the moon and stars which were very clear when I noticed one of the stars was moving, I looked at it for a few seconds and realized that it wasn’t a plane. As far as I know it was a satellite but I don’t know which one, maybe the ISS? It was moving ~NE-ish.
I know it is a good score on paper but I look around and see 35 and 36s everywhere, plus my GPA is just ok so I’m not sure. Where could I get in?
I'm a junior in highschool and I feel like my GPA is slightly less than perfect, so I was just wondering what people's GPA was when they got in. For the Record my career GPA is ~3.1 UW. Also I’ve take one AP and will take two more next year.
I want to start a DSA club at my high school next year; however, I am unsure how exactly to do that. Do I try to make it a full YDSA chapter? Should I focus on community engagement (food drives, book drives, etc.) or should I mainly focus on educating people about socialism? If it’s the latter, what should I know or have read?
After watching Marx x Engels yaoi edits on TikTok I thought socialism was based. But then I found a copy of the communists manifesto and began to read. On page one it says no iPhone, I thought maybe it was a fluke, a one off, but then I turn to page two and see no funko pop collection. I don’t think I can support this any longer…
The MAGA movement represents something far more sinister than just a populist right-wing movement. I think it is a very effective attempt at brainwashing much of the working class to vote against their own interests. To these people, the worst thing that someone could do is refuse to have blind loyalty to America, not have blind loyalty to the establishment, to the system, to the status quo, and all that preserves it. How do we counter this? Many of them have become so propagandized that they have ceased to form their own opinions anymore, their opinions is what ever Donald Trump and the ruling class want them to believe or feel. They turn up their noses at socialism of any kind because they've been told it's bad, even if it would help them out.
Over the past years, since Trump has gotten into office I have become reluctantly radicalized. However, I largely feel powerless against his government and the greater capitalist imperialist global order. However, I also can't help but feel a wave of frustration come over me when I see something like the no kings protests, where millions of people mobilize to contribute no material change to the current situation. However, I would also not wish to go to prison, random acts of crime or violence with no furthur organizational backing will get us nowhere. Luigi Magnione did an admirable thing, however, the CEO he killed will just be replaced by another and he will spend the rest of his life in prison while capitalism persists. What can I and others do to fight back legally while building organization to eventually preform systematic change.
I think I ought to share my story of radicalization becuase I don't believe it to be a rare one. I have become disollusioned with capitalism and moreover America because as each day passes I see a dimmer and dimmer future under capitalism. Seeing outright evil companies like Palantir or OpenAI gain massive ammounts of power over our government makes me realize that a brighter future for the next generation and the continuation of capitalism are mutually exclusive things.
It may sound like a dumb question but I was recently going through my email and deleting spam when I realized that all of these emails that no one will ever read again will be forever part of the ever growing pile of information created by humanity. It got me thinking, how much information is there? What physically constitutes as information? Can information be destroyed? How is information created? Is it natural, or an entirely human concept? There’s a speed limit to how quickly information can spread. Does our intake of information seem to affect the universe during the particle vs wave paradox? Does information need humans to exist to be information? If I carve a sentence into a cave somewhere and it stays there for thousands of years and becomes long forgotten does it still count as information?